Bajwara

Bajwara is an old Punjab town near the routes from the plains towards the Kangra hills. Tradition attributes its foundation to three newcomers from Ghazni, one of them a singer named Baju Baora. The town became a trading center on the route between Bukhara and Delhi, and was associated with twenty-two Bassi villages. It is also remembered as the birthplace of Mata Sundri, wife of the Sikh Guru Gobind Singh.

In 1432 Raja Jasrat defeated Allahdad Kaka, the Delhi Sultanate's governor of Lahore, at Bajwara and forced him to flee. A later account tells how Todar Mal, an officer of Akbar, reduced the town's extent after receiving an unwelcome reception on his way to Kangra. Bajwara developed again by the eighteenth century, and a fort became associated with the rule of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.